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@scottalanmiller said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:

@Obsolesce said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:

@scottalanmiller said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:

I'm one of the people that they harvested.

What data did they harvest from you?

"However, the software blocked the browsers from notifying or warning the user about not visiting the malicious websites the links of which the pre-installed adware posted. The adware could steal valuable information such as Social Security Number, private credentials, and similar sensitive data. This, claims the FTC, was a clear proof of the way Lenovo compromised the privacy of consumers.

The preloaded software “could access consumers’ sensitive information without adequate notice or consent to its use. This conduct is even more serious because the software compromised online security protections that consumers rely on,” stated Maureen Ohlhausen, the acting chairman of FTC. The FTC also noted that the data stolen by VisualDiscovery was not received by or sent to Superfish, the Palo Alto, California-based firm."

https://www.hackread.com/lenovo-to-pay-millions-for-secretly-installing-adware-in-750000-laptops/

Calling software the hijacks data and makes it available to third party "adware" because it "could also show ads" is a form of social engineering. Yes, it is also adware, but primarily it is a breach of security, that it shows ads as well is just a bit of misdirection to make it easier to confuse people from the actual problem.

I seen a whole lot of "could"s in there. Someone inside a retail store "could" steal something... Just because he could, doesn't mean he is stealing.

@scottalanmiller said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:

If you think that criminal activity, theft (and there was other theft beyond this, and there were people paid to do what you were doing on other communities to post things to downplay physical theft and other scams), hijacked functionality are "trivial" matters, that's fine. But this is victim shaming and is not okay. It's not ethically okay, and it is certainly not okay in this community.

I'm certainly not shaming anyone, and certainly not calling anyone a liar. That's a pretty far-fetched accusation and uncalled for.

I do not think it's to the extent many make it out to be. All of your data is not being pirated by Lenovo. That is the idea that seems to be going around that I can't agree with, and therefore can't share the same opinions.

@nadnerB said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread:

Arizona state representative quoted saying everybody shouldn't be voting.

In Arizona, another battleground seeing an onslaught of election-related legislative battles, state Rep. John Kavanagh, a Republican, told CNN, "Democrats value as many people as possible voting, and they're willing to risk fraud. Republicans are more concerned about fraud, so we don't mind putting security measures in that won't let everybody vote -- but everybody shouldn't be voting."

That's kinda the foundation of America and the point of the Constitution... only rich, land-holding, white males should be allowed to vote. It's at the very core of the American experience, unequal representation.

Every one in Australia has to vote. You cop a fine for not voting.
Doesn’t mean you can’t donkey vote but everyone is expected to.

Just be aware that if it wasn’t mandatory then only a tiny fraction would vote.

Curious to how other countries handle it.

In the U.S. everyone is manipulated into misvoting, but you have the freedom to choose not to vote. Other than that, there's tons of fake votes.

@DustinB3403 said in Hyper-V Manager Remote Delegation Permissions Denied - 2012 R2:

Hopefully others find the OP post useful.

Doubtful, there's way more to it than your little tidbit, and nobody would want to sift through 100 replies in the reference post. It's best to use a full tried and true guide like here:

REMOTELY MANAGING HYPER-V SERVER IN A WORKGROUP OR NON-DOMAIN

@hobbit666 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

I don't see the point of trying to live on Mars when earth will never be in as bad of shape as Mars and will never be as hard to make it habitable as it would with Mars. I'd say play around with it for tech advances, but then again, focusing on Earth would likely bring about advances in other ways.

@notverypunny said in How-To / Community Documentation & Resources:

I searched really quickly and didn't find a section or category where folks have been posting useful how-to guides or articles for the community. There are a couple of things that I've worked through lately that could probably be useful to others, just don't know exactly where to stash it on here. As an example, how to make a uefi bootable USB to automatically apply BIOS settings for Dell. In all honesty, my motivation here is as much to share with the community as have stuff like this publicly documented so I can find it if I need to re-do or update it for my own needs.

Store them on GitHub

@scottalanmiller said in Is Open Source Really So Much More Secure By Nature:

Here's another great way to look at it...

The desire for a peer reviewed article to prove the point is telling. When it comes to security, you want peer review.

But that's the point of open source: peer review.

Just write secure code, problem solved.

@scottalanmiller said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:

You can't really feel okay with having your banking data, SS#, private family info, spousal info, kids' info, all taken by a group of third parties.

I have never said it's okay. Now you are calling me a liar and shaming me, though not as pathetically as others.

How the media and big tech rigged the 2020 election

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@scottalanmiller said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:

@Obsolesce said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:

@DustinB3403 said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:

@Obsolesce said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:

@JaredBusch said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:

@Obsolesce said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:

@travisdh1 said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:

@Obsolesce said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:

@scottalanmiller said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:

I'm one of the people that they harvested.

What data did they harvest from you?

Everything. Literally everything.

I was just curious how he knows what was harvested. Did he capture packets being sent to them, was it all data? I'd like to see the results he's has showing all of his data was going there.

Fucking seriously? FFS, this is publicly known information.
It was bad that Lenovo did it. It was worse that they covered it up.
Lenovo has lied and covered it up and repeatedly done this.

Superfish related:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/02/lenovo-pcs-ship-with-man-in-the-middle-adware-that-breaks-https-connections/
https://thehackernews.com/2015/09/lenovo-laptop-virus.html
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/further-evidence-lenovo-breaking-https-security-its-laptops

Oh look. they did things AFTER superfish...
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/security-failings-demonstrate-avoid-lenovo/

It doesn't appear to me that any of you have read those articles.

You are simply being obtuse at this point and are trolling. At least try and make it entertaining when you troll.

It's okay to take off your tin foil hats.

So you ARE saying that I'm lying. Just to be clear.

It's like having had your bank broken into, the crooks already cracked the safe, the cops show up and tell the bank owners to "stop being crazy, those guys that just broke into the safe are innocent" and leaving.

Tin foil hat doesn't really apply to a situation like this. Tin foil hat is a conspiracy reference. If you know what a conspiracy is, you'd be clear that it's not a reference that ever applies to either 1) a single entity or 2) a normal self serving business process.

Example... a shop lifter taking candy from a corner store. Under no circumstances, can it happening or someone fearing that it happened or might happen be connected to a conspiracy. Conspiring is the act of people acting together. Something, obviously, a lone actor cannot do.

... You all make it as such. Adware using a stupid method to insert ads into your web pages, somehow translates to OH NOES! Lenovo is stealing all my data!!! Lenovo is spying! China is spying through Lenovo! Quick, put on your tin foil hats!

@DustinB3403 said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:

@Obsolesce said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:

@JaredBusch said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:

@Obsolesce said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:

@travisdh1 said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:

@Obsolesce said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:

@scottalanmiller said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:

I'm one of the people that they harvested.

What data did they harvest from you?

Everything. Literally everything.

I was just curious how he knows what was harvested. Did he capture packets being sent to them, was it all data? I'd like to see the results he's has showing all of his data was going there.

Fucking seriously? FFS, this is publicly known information.
It was bad that Lenovo did it. It was worse that they covered it up.
Lenovo has lied and covered it up and repeatedly done this.

Superfish related:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/02/lenovo-pcs-ship-with-man-in-the-middle-adware-that-breaks-https-connections/
https://thehackernews.com/2015/09/lenovo-laptop-virus.html
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/further-evidence-lenovo-breaking-https-security-its-laptops

Oh look. they did things AFTER superfish...
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/security-failings-demonstrate-avoid-lenovo/

It doesn't appear to me that any of you have read those articles.

You are simply being obtuse at this point and are trolling. At least try and make it entertaining when you troll.

It's okay to take off your tin foil hats.

@travisdh1 said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:

@Obsolesce said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:

@scottalanmiller said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:

I'm one of the people that they harvested.

What data did they harvest from you?

Everything. Literally everything.

I was just curious how he knows what was harvested. Did he capture packets being sent to them, was it all data? I'd like to see the results he's has showing all of his data was going there.

@scottalanmiller said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:

I'm one of the people that they harvested.

What data did they harvest from you?

@travisdh1 said in Looking for a Google Wear OS Watch:

@Obsolesce said in Looking for a Google Wear OS Watch:

@scottalanmiller said in Looking for a Google Wear OS Watch:

And when someone says "That's a GM, and tehre is an issue with them", you'd respond "It's a Chevy, not a GM",

My whole point is to call it by the label. Not something up the line. Of course GM makes it, but it's called a Chevy. Yes Lenovo owns it, but it's called a Motorola .

But it's Lenovo owning Motorola that makes Motorola hardware a known security hole. As in compliance with any security regulation is now in a known failed state. That's why I harp on this minor fact.

Allegedly. You dont think the US is doing anything?

@justin867 said in Best Backup Solution for 2019:

Hi,
I'm looking for a backup solution and wanted to check what are the options for 2019?
We will be backing up File Servers VM’s (2TB -3TB). Due to bandwidth limitations, I’m hoping to have offline backup and with an option to backup online when needed.

Best? SCDPM without any other considerations.

@john-nicholson said in Looking for virtualization advice:

@garyp said in Looking for virtualization advice:

@dashrender said in Looking for virtualization advice:

@scottalanmiller said in Looking for virtualization advice:

@dashrender said in Looking for virtualization advice:

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@garyp said in Looking for virtualization advice:

We have equipment in 5 NA locations and over 500 phones, so management is not looking to move to anything else at this time.

Why would management be involved? IT should be like "we can save money, improve systems" and that's the end of it. Why would management have any say other than verifying cost savings and such? The bigger the network, the more money there is to be saved, right?

He's in the same situation as me. The hardware is already in place. Moving to FreePBX would likely require purchasing all new phones, or moving users to softphones on their computers, which would require purchasing headsets most likely.

In either case, there would be a substantial hardware outlay likely if they changed.

But they are looking at significant outlay to keep using what they have. They have to invest specifically in a VMware solution instead of what meets the needs of the business, they have to pay to keep the Avaya running and they have to take on the risks of using a solution from a non-viable or marginally viable vendor. That's all real costs that they are facing to NOT switch.

I'm not saying you're wrong - but 500 phones, even Yealink aren't cheap, not to mention the training to the staff, the IT time, etc.

If it really boils down to it, they can just leave it on the server it's currently on, and change nothing else about that one server. We assume there is already a backup solution in place - so that shouldn't be that bad to maintain.

Then the business can plan for this change over down the road.

We also have a few call centers, which accounts for a significant amount of revenue. So, aside from all the hardware expenses to rip and replace, we would need to reprogram all the routing (and the ability needs to be there, in whatever new system gets installed) along with retraining the call center staff. It would probably take an amazing ROI, before management would even begin to consider approving a project like this. I do appreciate the comments regarding the on-going expenses to manage Avaya.

Even using cheap as shit labor for some of this ($20Hr).

There it is, excellent point. If someone is not a flashy cool rich guy like yourself always flaunting their worth in almost every post, and someone only makes around $20/hr, their worth the same as your shit. It always makes its way out in some form or another in your posts, lol.

@scottalanmiller said in Red Wine is good for you: Myth busted!:

@tim_g said in Red Wine is good for you: Myth busted!:

Because in the end: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/how-alcohol-damages-stem-cell-dna-and-increases-cancer-risk/ar-BBHQ0gM

That it has alcohol, and the fact that you get more benefits from other things instead... even alcohol free red wine exists.

But OTHER studies say that alcohol is good for you, even without the red wine.

Because you want it to be, so you can justify drinking it.

@ryanov said in White Castle Adds Veggie Burgers!:

@dustinb3403 I legit just did forgot password to log in here and downvote your comment. Apparently I dont yet have the reputation for it. So now I’ll have to work on that so that I can come back and downvote it.

There ya go!

Log in as you and just use su. Disallow root login. Use key based Auth, etc.